"Boredom: the desire for desires."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on Bores and Boredom
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"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on Greatness
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"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."

Levant, Oscar on Regret
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"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I."

Levant, Oscar on Psychiatry
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on Insanity
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"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."

Salk, Lee on Adversity
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Compensation
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on Friends and Friendship
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"There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences."

Inge, Dean William R. on Consequences
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on Decisions
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on Love
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on Expectation
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on Desire
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on Desire
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on Deception
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

Kettering, Charles F. on Peace
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